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The Lord said: I am sending an angel to protect you and to lead you into the land I have ready for you.

Then Moses wrote down what the Lord had said. The next morning Moses got up early. He built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up a large stone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The Lord said to Moses, "Come up on the mountain and stay here for a while. I will give you the two flat stones on which I have written the laws that my people must obey."

and the bright glory of the Lord came down and stayed there. The cloud covered the mountain for six days, and on the seventh day the Lord told Moses to come into the cloud.

olive oil for the lamp; sweet-smelling spices to mix with the oil for dedicating the tent and ordaining the priests;

and onyx stones for the sacred vest and the breastpiece.

near the edging. The poles for carrying the table are to be placed through these rings and are to be made of acacia wood covered with gold.

The table is to be kept in the holy place, and the sacred loaves of bread must always be put on it. All bowls, plates, jars, and cups for wine offerings are to be made of pure gold and set on this table.

The tongs and trays for taking care of the lamps are to be made of pure gold.

As the material for the tent, use goat hair to weave eleven sections fifteen yards by two yards each.

The Lord said: Build a framework of acacia wood for the walls of the sacred tent.

Place two silver stands under each frame with sockets for the pegs, so the frames can be joined together. Twenty of these frames are to be used along the south side and twenty more along the north.

For the back wall along the west side use six frames

Make five crossbars for each of the wooden frames,

Outside the curtain put the table for the sacred bread on the right side and the gold lampstand on the left.

For the entrance to the tent, use a piece of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with fancy needlework.

All the equipment for the altar must also be made of bronze—the pans for the hot ashes, the shovels, the sprinkling bowls, the meat forks, and the fire pans.

Cover two acacia wood poles with bronze and put them through the rings for carrying the altar.

The Lord said: Surround the sacred tent with a courtyard one hundred fifty feet long on the south and north and seventy-five feet wide on the east and west. Use twenty bronze posts on bronze stands for the south and north and ten for the west. Then hang a curtain of fine linen on the posts along each of these three sides by using silver hooks and rods. Place three bronze posts on each side of the entrance at the east and hang a curtain seven and a half yards wide on each set of posts.

Use four more of these posts for the entrance way, then hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen ten yards long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool.